Craig County (Va.)

Scope and Content Born in Craig County, Virginia; first student to enroll at the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College (now Virginia Tech), in October 1872. Graduated in 1876. Papers consist of Caldwell's report card from the 1875 academic year, with the envelope it was sent in; a bible given to Caldwell in 1878 as a graduation gift; a letter written by him in Wrightsville, North Carolina, in 1910, a month and a half before his death, to his niece Katherine Caldwell in Radford, Virginia; and a...

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Typescript copies of seventy-five letters from the management of a resort hotel in Craig County, Virginia, about reservations, accommodations, and the restorative powers of the spring water, to potential guests and other resorts. 

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Scrapbook of approximately 240 (all ca. 1880) photographs of structures and scenes in several southwestern Virginia counties, including Bland, Craig, Giles, and Smyth. Includes photographs of a Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad station in New Castle and Mountain Lake resort hotel, both in Giles County. Photographs believed to have been taken and compiled by Porter. Images available online.

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Abandoned flour mill in Craig County, Virginia. Handwritten survey of the mill done for the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (Montgomery County Branch).